Quote Originally Posted by Dave Patten View Post
My only comment is National racers on a whole enter less races than Regional racers do. The goal for a National racer is to qualify for the Runoffs. Divisional Championships exist but they have little to no importance to these drivers. That means 3 finishes and 1 start (4 entries) and a top 10 in Divisional Points gets you to the big show. No need to race any more than that.

The Current top 10 IT drivers in a Division enter more than 4 races to contest their Regional level Championship. This is where the hurt is going to come from with IT becoming a National Class. It will be in overall entries collected by the Regions and the resulting increase in event entries to cover those losses.

i don't think IT would pan out like this. SM is national, yet those guys all enter plenty of races because of the difficulty in finishing top 10 in pts.

the number of races entered has little to do with national/regional, and a lot to do with competition (or popularity as kirk likes to say).